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Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the effort by the organization True the Vote (“TTV”) to intervene in the Texas voter photo ID case. True the Vote sought to intervene to defend the discriminatory law. The trial court had denied intervention last year and True the Vote...
Yesterday in Baca v. Berry, Campaign Legal Center attorneys, along with attorneys at Jenner & Block, filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit responding to the City of Albuquerque’s efforts to obtain financial sanctions against four of its own citizens and their...
Today in Veasey v. Abbott, attorneys at the Campaign Legal Center, who serve as co-counsel for plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey, LULAC, and a group of Texas voters, filed a brief urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a District Court ruling striking down Texas’ voter photo ID law...
On March 7, 2015, the Voting Rights Institute, a joint project of the Campaign Legal Center and American Constitution Society (ACS), will conduct the next voting rights training session in Austin, Texas to help fill the critical need for a new generation of voting rights lawyers, experts, and...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center released a short film focusing on three lifelong voters disenfranchised by Texas’ voter photo ID law (SB 14), the most restrictive and burdensome voter ID law in the nation. The ten-minute film produced by Firelight Media traces the efforts of the Campaign Legal...
On May 7, 2015, the Voting Rights Institute, a joint project of the Campaign Legal Center and American Constitution Society (ACS), will conduct the next voting rights training session in Chicago, Illinois. The ongoing Institute training sessions are helping to help meet the critical need for a new...
Later today in Baca v. Berry, Campaign Legal Center attorneys, along with attorneys at Jenner & Block, will present oral argument in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. The City of Albuquerque is seeking to obtain financial sanctions against four of its...
Today, Texas voters who would be adversely impacted by the law, civil rights organizations, elected representatives and a Texas county filed a brief opposing the motion of Texas officials to dismiss the consolidated lawsuits against the state's voter photo ID law. Several challenges (including one...
Discriminatory voting changes recently implemented in two Texas communities were highlighted in a statement submitted by Campaign Legal Center Executive Director J. Gerald Hebert into the Senate Judiciary Committee record for today’s hearing on The Voting Rights Amendment Act (S.1945). The...
Ideological and interest group opponents of campaign finance regulation continue to flood the courts with cases challenging campaign finance laws at the federal, state and municipal levels. McCutcheon v. FEC, a challenge to the federal aggregate contribution limits, will be argued before the U.S...
On May 16, 2014, the Campaign Legal Center filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit an opposition to a motion by the organization True the Vote (“TTV”) to expedite its appeal or, in the alternative, to stay the voter ID case in the district court while it pursues its appeal.. On...
Last night, Texas voters who would be adversely impacted by the law, civil rights organizations, elected representatives and a Texas county filed an amended challenge to Texas’ controversial voter ID law. The amended complaint challenging the constitutionality of the law was filed in in the United...
The Campaign Legal Center’s latest Voting Rights Institute training takes place today in Washington, DC. At the session, co-hosted by American Constitution Society, practitioners and law students will be briefed on the skills necessary to enforce voting rights law. Particular emphasis will be...
The Campaign Legal Center’s latest Voting Rights Institute training will take place on Friday, March 28 in Atlanta, Georgia. At the session, co-hosted by American Constitution Society, practitioners and law students will learn the ins and outs of the enforcement of voting rights law. Cases brought...
On March 14, the Campaign Legal Center informed officials from the City of Jasper, Texas that the annexations of predominantly white subdivisions, currently under consideration by the City, appear to violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
The City of Jasper is considering the annexation of...
Today’s decision is a huge setback for civil rights in our nation. It is citizens, specifically the nation’s minorities, who will suffer as a result the votes of 5 Supreme Court Justices. The Roberts Court proved again that it will not be deterred by Supreme Court precedent, the realities on the...
The Campaign Legal Center’s latest Voting Rights Institute training takes place today in Columbus, Ohio to train the next generation of voting rights lawyers. At the session, co-hosted by American Constitution Society, practitioners and law students will learn the ins and outs of the enforcement...
Today, a proposed consent judgment and decree was presented to a three-judge court in Washington, DC, granting a Voting Rights Act bailout to Hanover County, Virginia while the Supreme Court could rule as early as tomorrow on the Act’s preclearance provisions. If today’s bailout is approved...
The Campaign Legal Center announced today that the Voting Rights Institute will expand to New York, Ohio and Georgia in the coming months to train the next generation of Voting Rights lawyers in the wake of the Supreme Court’s highly-controversial Shelby County decision striking down key provisions...
The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014, introduced today by a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress, represents an important first step to restoring and protecting the rights of all Americans to vote and make their voices heard in elections. Though this bill, as drafted, has some troublesome...